mainframe

IBM, the tech giant best known for selling IT software and mainframe computers, has long had the ear of big businesses.

With the way tech has inserted itself into our day-to-day lives, it has become nearly impossible to be a consumer of culture without being plugged into the mainframe.

He first got access to an early mainframe computer via a teletype machine at the school, after the mothers held a jumble sale to raise the money.

He was among a handful of influential engineers whose designs formed the vital bridge between the room-size models of the mainframe era and the advent of the personal computer.

Despite Mother’s “get out of jail free” card, she was still determined to climb the wall and hack into the company’s mainframe.